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Why Does Ground Grading Always Come as a Surprise?
It’s that time of year again. No, not when I write my now seemingly annual article (sorry, I’ll try and get back to it!), but rather the time when clubs anxiously await their fate as to which division they’ll be competing in the following season. Why,… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under the League Interviews…Wayne Carlisle
The last 17 years have been quite the ride for Northern Irish wing wizard Wayne Carlisle. And the genial, engaging Truro City assistant talks me through a playing career which began at the lofty heights of a packed Selhurst Park and ended with a bittersweet mixture… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under the League Interviews…Carl Piergianni
It was no surprise when Carl Piergianni was named Boston United’s Player of the Year at the end of the last campaign, and it was a given that his face yet again adorned the National League North’s ‘Team of the Year’. A tough, talented and combative… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under the League Interviews…Kurtis Guthrie
Right now, Kurtis Guthrie is the toast of The New Lawn. With five goals already this campaign, the Jersey-born forward is skilful, powerful and regularly contributing vital goals for the current leaders of the National League. Having begun his career at Jersey club St. Clement, 22-year-old… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under the League Interviews…Darren Williams
It’s no surprise that Darren Williams has made a splash as manager of ‘The Catch’. Now four years into his tenure as Whitby Town boss, the friendly and genuine Teessider has seen it all during more than two decades in the game. In a storied career,… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under The League Interviews… Lewis Haldane
Dave Burin has been busy for us once again, this time chatting to former Bristol Rovers, Port Vale and Oxford United winger Lewis Haldane. Even over a slightly crackly phone reception on a windy August night, Lewis Haldane’s warmth shines through. One of Non-League football’s most… Read the rest of this entry →
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Yate Town F.C. vs Newport A.F.C. (Beazer Homes League Midland Division 12/04/93)
The latest #Classic Programme review sees us travel back in time some twenty two years, to a Spring day in Hampshire. Chipping Sodbury. It’s not really the name of a place but instead the words your dad used to seethe between gritted teeth upon stubbing his… Read the rest of this entry →
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Non League Legends: Edgar Kail
Meet the one club legend who is still adored more than eighty years after he stopped playing. Edgar Isaac Lewis Kail was born in London on November 26th, 1900. He spent his entire fourteen year senior career at Dulwich Hamlet FC, and is rightly held in… Read the rest of this entry →
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Classic Programme – Salford City vs Darwen
A look at a matchday programme from twenty-odd years ago.no bias involved here at all, I promise you). Paul Scholes and Phil Neville even took on a caretaker management role for a match against Kendal Town, resulting in a 2-1 win before the appointment of former… Read the rest of this entry →
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Under The League Interviews…Kevin Wilson
In another Under the League exclusive, Dave Burin heads to a windswept Liberty Way to chat with Nuneaton Town’s new boss, Kevin Wilson. Honest, warm and with a wonderful eye for detail, Kevin recollects his fascinating career on the field and in the dugout, which has… Read the rest of this entry →
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Top Story: Why Does Ground Grading Always Come as a Surprise?
It’s that time of year again. No, not when I write my now seemingly annual article (sorry, I’ll try and get back to it!), but rather the time when clubs…